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I can respect the paranoia around ensuring bit-accurate rips of CDs with little-if-any existing metadata on the web.

I remain suspicious of the cargo cult of EAC as doing something substantially different than cdrtools or anything else that knows the ins-and-outs of the redbook format

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A lot of the emphasis on EAC is that robust automatic logfile validation tools exist for it (from what I can tell?), so it requires less manual inspection for archival. But I agree that other tools are likely equally capable.

Completely understandable, EAC is certainly not the only software capable of using accurate stream features on CD drives or doing AccurateRip DB comparisons. Making bit-perfect archival rips is more about soundness of "the process" than the software you do it with, EAC is just one such tool.

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